# Arne Quinze

Arne Quinze (born 15 December 1971) is a Belgian conceptual artist known for his public art installations. He also creates sculptures, drawings, and paintings. He began his artistic journey as a graffiti artist in Brussels in his late teens, never completing formal art education.

## Installation art

Quinze creates sculptures using wooden planks and many other materials.
In 2006, he built Uchronia: A Message from the Future, a large wooden sculpture at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. Cityscape (2007) and The Sequence (2008) are two of his large wooden public art installations in the center of Brussels, Belgium. The Sequence was installed directly outside the Flemish Parliament building and the House of Flemish Representatives. In Munich, Germany, he built Traveller (2008) for Louis Vuitton. His other public art installations include Rebirth (2008) in Paris, France; The Visitor (2009) in Beirut, Lebanon, and an ongoing project at the Big Four Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky
During the festival Rouen Impressionnée in Rouen in the summer of 2010, he paid tribute to Claude Monet by painting the Les Jardins/The Waterlilies series for an exhibition in the Abbatiale de Saint-Ouen. The festival was organized as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, under the presidency of Laurent Fabius, celebrating the region's impressionist past. In addition to the exhibition, an installation titled Camille was built on the Boieldieu Bridge, a bridge that was painted by Camille Pissarro several times.
Quinze sees his installations as modern gathering places for people to meet and converse. Red Beacon (2010) is located in the Jing'an Sculpture Park in Shanghai. His sculptures redefine social space and provide alternative models of interaction.
Other work explores how people seek safe environments. The installation My Home My House My Stilthouse (2011) in Humlebaek, Denmark, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art explores new forms of housing and living.
He revealed a virtual installation Rock Strangers (2011) on the Statue of Liberty in New York City on 4th of July in collaboration with Beck's for their Green Box Project. The project is co-curated and commissioned and mentored by Nick Knight of SHOWstudio.com and producer Sam Spiegel.
In the context of Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture, a wooden installation called The Passenger was built and remained visible from 6 December 2014 until 19 December 2019. After a partial collapse on 24 December 2014, the installation was rebuilt and inaugurated on 16 October 2015.

## Work

Quinze's artwork references social interaction, evolution, communication, rhythm, and the interplay of lines, contrasts and contradictions. Recurring materials and techniques in his work are wood, including salvaged wood; cardboard, polyurethane and fluorescent paint. The intense color of some of his sculptures contrasts with their surroundings.
He creates works in themes such as Bidonville, Stilthouse, My Home My House My Stilthouse, View and Chaos. Bidonvilles are considered houses for the future and provoke open communication in a society of human interaction. Stilthouses can be perceived as humans on fragile legs symbolizing the strong nature of man.
In 2009, Quinze installed a public Stilthouse installation called The Visitor in Beirut, Lebanon near its newly developed Souk complex. Auction house Phillips de Pury & Company invited the artist to present his work at their London gallery. The exhibition was extended at London's Saatchi Gallery in the Duke of York's Headquarters on King's Road.
During Hamburg Artweek (2011), Quinze revealed new work using smashed old porcelain, meant to symbolize the destruction of family traditions.
In June 2014, Quinze collaborated with Veridor to create a "Natural Chaos" artwork: 45 kg of precious metal. This piece was made of 18-carat rose gold and 18-carat palladium white gold in rod and pipe form, as well as gold wire and leaves. The piece, Natural Chaos - Golden Edition No. 1, was offered for sale for EUR 1.8 million on JamesEdition.

## Personal life

Quinze lives and works in Sint Martens Latem near Ghent, Belgium.

### Marriages

Arne Quinze married Barbara Becker at their Miami waterfront home on 9 September 2009. They held a celebration on 12 September 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Becker and Quinze divorced in October 2011.
He married An Lemmens on 6 October 2012. In September 2015, Lemmens and Quinze divorced.